| A |
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Composer is backing 'Blues I' variation (8) |
| B | Departement of Ile de France makes no sense (7) |
| C | Composer long after wild party (5) |
| D | Makes Dodd see fit to change international festival of the 'bardic arts' (10) |
| E | In short no credit from this US electronics company (3) |
| F | Father has energy to enter festivals of Pacific Ocean islands (9) |
| G | Cryptic clue: one needs date of Greek mathematician (6) |
| H | Time to fool former news agency (4) |
| I | Bond inventor filming an epic initially perhaps (3,7) |
| J | Trembling, warn Hal of tusked Arctic inhabitant (7) |
| K | One left northern Scottish port for castled Northumbrian town (7) |
| L | The bedouin's place in art/entertainment? (4) |
| M | Balearic island's first class backing protects informal business (5) |
| N | Irish short story writer of earthly mix (1,8) |
| O | Hitler's lot involved in Arizona 'zip art' (yellow) (4,5) |
| P | Hunnish ruler sounds like a farm labourer (6) |
| Q | French town some motorists go round and round all day! (2,4) |
| R | Clumsily tip samples of text apparently over-written in a manuscript (10) |
| S | Mythological Greek king cold during ocean return (8) |
| T | French river horse it's said (5) |
| U | Family with thousands of dollars of Old Testament books (5) |
